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Simultaneously. fascinating to me considering it s so much more extensive. sure. sean: because of the progress you made with people like patrick, you were able to do it more quickly. yep. sean: fascinating. the tricky part was the remains a, something we had no experience with, but we ve been in this scenario. similar scenario, different territory. we rehearsed plenty of times. the arms are a little tricky because we have a lot of tissue. we have to attach 24 tendons, three major nerves, six major blood vessels. but we ve created these sterile tags so when we cut a nerve, we have to tag everything. it looks like the inside of a telephone wire but everything is appropriate. innie company s case he s right hand dominate. it was important for him to have a normal right hand so he can work. so the first goal is to free up the right hand from the donor room. sean: he had had the top of his fingers cut off. right, his fingers were basically here and they were like webs. ....
Sent, like everything lined up as it should. open your mouth for me. okay. just relax let me feel your lips here. sean: even after 71 surgeries and skin grafts from his legs, for 14 years patrick lived with what doctors described as pin hole vision. a mass of scar tissue was all that was left. his eyelids, his lips, ears, nose, completely destroyed. we ve been evaluating patrick in new york at nyu, the entire face, ears, scalp, give rid of all the portions of the face that were burned in the fire and make him look normal. sean: with dr. rodriguez on board, patrick finally had hope but they still needed to find a donor. done a lot for him working hard every day trying to get ....
It s very precise and then you have to attach muscles bones, so you begin connecting the bones with plates and screws and then suturing and microscope and blood vessels and then you taylor of the skin. you want to make sure the eyelids align. you would also replace the ears, you have to align the ear canal so you can hear normally. the nose has to be properly aligned so you can breathe normally. the lips, everything has to be properly tailored. sean: the amount of detail and intricacy is mind numb to me. as soon as we connect the major artery, the carotid, our hearts, i imagine my heart rate s probably up throughout this whole process. once you connect the face and you see the face pink up, that s when i take a breath. sean: you see it. you can see it. sean: the face is alive again. it s alive again, it s the live in patrick ace body with patrick s blood. so that face is alive, it pinks up and you can feel the energy in the room from everyone, because we are racing to that ....
sean: you said in an interview you would do it again tomorrow. yeah. i hate that i can t do it now. sean: this burning roof literally collapses on your head. it destroyed your eyelids, your lips, your ears, your nose. i can still talk. i mean, i can still communicate. i could i never thought it was as bad as what it was? even when my friends came up they would be all upset and i would be like, chill out, i got this. i never thought it was that bad. sean: when you looked in the mirror i didn t actually see myself until probably november. i got injured in september. probably november of that year, they had cut a little pin hole in one of my eyelids because they had everything covered, skin graft. i looked in the mirror and all i could do, i said, this is it? i can t do this. sean: what do you mean you can t do this. well, it just, i had kids. it was just a tough time. i never got a day off from the injury. ....
A scream. she said, who was that? i said it s joe. he was in an accident. is he okay? i said it doesn t sound good. he was in a medically induced coma for three straight months. the severe facial scarring left him with no lips, no eyelids, his fingertips had to be amputated leaving him unable to do everyday tasks and live a regular life. you have this horrible car accident, you don t remember, i would assume, right, at this point. no, i don t even remember going to work that night either. sean: so you had all these skin graft surgeries. you had no lips, no eyelids. your fingertips had to be amputated as part of this. you needed help getting dressed in the morning. you needed help with just doing the basics in life. yeah, just everything. my mom had to help me through a lot of things. it s not the right way to live. ....